Gendered Environmental Differences

In the article Gender and Enviroment, we are introduced to the perspective of how environmental factors affect individuals differently based on gender. As many of us are well aware gender in the global south shapes a lot of the opportunities that an individual may have such as personal freedoms and liberties, political rights, access to education, as well as entry into the workforce. However, this causes certain aspects to be overlooked such as how exactly environmental factors can come into play and also have in impact on an individual's other areas of life. an example given in the article takes a look at how exactly a flood could affect a woman in the global south in contrast to a man. One of the first differences pointed to is the fact that it is much more likely for a man in the global south to know how to swim than it would be for a woman this at a very basic level showing how a flood might affect a woman differently than a man. in a more complex way of explaining how a flood might impact a woman's life take for example if her husband was to die in that flood that means she would be tasked with maintaining her families livelihood and household. which would be no easy task for a woman in the global south to do because as we know entry into the workforce is not something easily obtained by women in the global south. which would leave many women who fall victim to a similar fate to be killed of due to starvation or dehydration due to failing to keep up with everything after the man in her household passed. from both of these examples outlined we can see just how drastic of a difference it is to undergo such an event based on your gender and these are things not taken into account when we see our environments being overly harvested and resources not being replenished after we use them causing the climate of our plant to change harshly affecting the poorest areas of the world when those causing these issues on a global scale are only a small percentage of the worlds wealthiest and elite members of society. We must speak out against injustices such as these because as long as we allow this to happen the more individuals in less developed regions will suffer the brunt of these actions with the worst of it affecting the women of the global south.